TummelVision 67: Tantek Çelik explains open web standards for poets

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Tantek Çelik is an independent technologist, writer, teacher… the notorious @t on twitter… and a vocal proponent of open web standards. In the wake of the Schema announcement, Tantek joins Heather, Kevin, and Deb to talk about the present and future of the social graph, openness, and living online.

Notes and Notes:

• Tantek’s book: HTML5 Now: A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Getting Started Today
• New York Times editor Bill Keller on Twitter
• NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen tweeted: Jill Abramson took six months off as Times managing editor to learn digital http://nyti.ms/denx5J She returned in five: http://bit.ly/aafNMx
• HuffPo: Bill Keller To Be Replaced By Jill Abramson As ‘New York Times’ Executive Editor
• Jaron Lanier and his book You are Not a Gadget
• YouTube Now Lets You License Videos Under Creative Commons (Remixers, Rejoice)
• One example of a “social graph” (that is, Tantek’s)
• IndieWebCamp
• About Microformats
• The Microformats crew on “how to agree on a standard“
• An example of a Microformats-based search result: http://lockerz.com/s/107152515
• Eli Pariser on The Filter Bubble
• Google, Bing, and Yahoo’s “Schema.org“
• More about RDF: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
• Cory Doctorow on “metacrap“
• Clay Shirky on The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
• @debs: via @t “the way you make standards works is not through fiat but through community – you need agreement across silos”
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